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~reviewer Dawn Myers
"Karen Wiesner composes excellent well-written drama that keeps the reader on the edge-of-the-seat, spellbound. She never disappoints and every story is cleverly constructed. The way she pens these realistic characters makes for an extraordinary read. She puts the reader in the center of the action with all the riveting moments of suspense, jeopardy and heartwarming romance that reaches out and touches the reader. I love the way she spins her stories and characters, leaving the audience quite satisfied. She is so skilled in her talent that I always look forward to reading her stories."
~Linda L., reviewer for The Romance Studio
"If you're seeking a suspenseful story which throws you into the heart of the matter from the first sentence, and keeps you turning the pages long after your disbelief is suspended and you've forgotten you are reading the story, not living it, then pick up a Karen Wiesner book! Karen is an author who has a seemingly unlimited imagination for character and plot, and I plan to read everything she writes. Thankfully she is quite prolific. This is an author never to be missed that I can consistently recommend. May she continue with her writing career for many decades to come!"
~reviewer Annie for eCataromance and EuroReviews
"Karen Wiesner seems to keep getting better and better. The author and I seem to be in complete sync." ~reviewer Dee Dailey for The Romance Studio
"Karen Wiesner gets inside the minds of her audience. She's a sure shot to entertain her audience. As always she writes must-read for fans that will enhance her deserved reputation as one of the sub-genre's consistent best. Newcomers will want to read the previous saga as these are some of the best novels around."
~reviewer Harriet Klausner
"[This] author seems to get better with each tale she writes. Karen Wiesner has one of the most fertile imaginations I have ever seen."
~reviewer Detra Fitch
"Karen Wiesner, the new voice of women's fiction, proves yet again that she's a top-notch storyteller. No one explores the complexities of relationships and the yearnings of woman's heart better than she does. I've never seen a writer more adept at capturing the emotional complexities of the human experience. Her love stories are bold, fearless, and unforgettable. The world of women's fiction is a better place because Ms. Wiesner is in it."
~author Michele Bardsley
“It has to be a lucky day -- I get to start a new trilogy by one of my favorite authors, Karen Wiesner! Before even starting, I expected to love this newest series because I look for anything with Wiesner's name on it. And I was definitely not disappointed. Karen Wiesner has done what she does best—write a heart-stopping book with a multi-dimensional plot. Her characters were so complex. There was a tremendous amount of information given which developed the series even more fully. True to her reputation, she delivered a vibrant storyline with breathtaking events. This book is another classic Karen Wiesner. She took some vaguely-connected people from the same hometown and expanded on the series in a fabulous continuation. You could read this book as a stand-alone, but why would you want to? This book had emotional consequences and just expanded my interest in Wiesner. She completes her books so well she is definitely on my "must-read" list. Wiesner did what she does best—captured my attention and forced me to allow her to captivate me. Wiesner definitely does not write "cookie-cutter" stories.”
~The Romance Studio reviewer Brenda Talley
Karen Wiesner is an accomplished author with 89 titles published in the past 14 years, which have been nominated/won 123 awards, and has 17 more releases contracted for spanning many genres and formats.
Karen's Incognito Series (romantic action/adventure/suspenses) is published by Whiskey Creek Press. All twelve are now available: NO ORDINARY LOVE, UNTIL DEATH DO US PART, BOUNTY ON THE REBEL'S HEART, DEAD DROP, UNDER THE SPELL, RENEGADE'S ROSE, UNDERCOVER ANGEL, HARD TO HANDLE, DANCE IN SHADOWS, HYPNOTIZED, MIND GAMES, and the final, DARK APPROACH. DARK APPROACH, Book 12, was nominated for Romantic Times Book Reviews 2011 Reviewer’s Choice Award. Also available are four Incognito Series "Megabooks", each containing three full novels in the series. The Incognito Series has won and/or finaled in RT Book Review’s Reviewer’s Choice Awards, FTHRW's Lories' Best Proposal and Best Publishing contests, the L-Edit Slip contest, EPIC's EPPIE Award, The Romance Studio's Sweetheart and CAPA Awards, Ecataromance's Reviewer's Choice Award, Fallen Angel Reviews' Recommended Read Award, The Long and Short of It's (LASR) Best Romance of the Year Award and their highest review rating--Best Book, Manic Readers' featured review status, and RT Book Reviews' Top Pick review award. The series has also received 5 star reviews from The Romance Studio, Fallen Angel Reviews, LASR, ReviewYourBook.com, Dark Diva Reviews, as well 4 1/2 stars from RT Book Reviews. Find out more about the upcoming spin-off trilogy of this series, Shadow Missions (with the bonus story Out of the Shadows, The Final Mission), here. Karen designed all the Incognito Series covers herself.
Karen's inspirational romantic mystery trilogy is called Denim Blues Mysteries and is published by Whiskey Creek Press. All three books are now available, including: RETIRED AND ON THE ROCKS (Book 1) {5 stars from Readers Favorite}; LOVE IS BLIND...AND IT DON'T PAY THE BILLS EITHER (Book 2) {5 heart review from The Romance Studio, 5 Sweetheart Award winner, also the 2010 CAPA Award winner; and 2nd place winner in the Mainstream/Single Title/Romantic Suspense category of the 2010 Lories Best Published contest}; and SOULS ON (B)ORING STREET (Book 3) {4 ½ book review and Book of the Week Nominee from LASR}. Look for the spin-off trilogy, Red Velvet Mysteries, in 2014-2015. Karen designed the covers herself.
Karen’s inspirational romance series, Family Heirlooms, is published by Whiskey Creek Press, including: BABY, BABY (Book 1 reissue), SHADOW BOXING (Book 2 reissue), FOOLISH GAMES (Book 3), GLASS ANGELS (Book 4), SHARDS OF ASHLEY (Book 5), and WORLDS COLLIDE (Book 6). The Family Heirlooms Series has won and/or finaled for The Romance Studio’s Sweetheart and CAPA Awards, Ecataromance Reviewer’s Choice Award, and WDRF's Top Read of Excellence, their highest review rating. SHADOW BOXING took 1st place in Love Romances & More 2010 Golden Rose Awards (contemporary romance category). FOOLISH GAMES placed 2nd in the inspirational category of the 2010 Lories Best Published contest. GLASS ANGELS received a 5 star review and was a 5 Heart Review Sweetheart Award nominee at The Romance Studio and won the 2011 TRS CAPA Award in the inspirational romance category. SHARDS OF ASHLEY received a 5 star review from Coffee Time Romance & More and was one of only two selected to receive January 2012’s Reviewer's Recommend Award. Look for the spin-off to Karen’s award-winning Family Heirlooms Series with the Friendship Heirlooms Series (inspirational romances) including CLUMSY GIRL’S GUIDE TO FALLING IN LOVE (Book 1, Chick-lit, coming December 2012) and MICHAEL’S ANGEL (Book 2, romantic suspense, coming July 2013), FOREVER AND ALL THAT JAZZ (Book 3, contemporary romance, coming January 2014), FIRST COMES LOVE (Book 4, contemporary romance, coming March 2014), CLUMSY GIRL'S GUIDE TO HAVING A BABY (Book 5, Chick-lit, coming June 2014), PERFECT REFLECTION (Book 6, contemporary romance, coming October 2014), and CLUMSY GIRL'S GUIDE TO HAVING IT ALL (Book 7, Chick-lit, coming January 2015). All will be released from Whiskey Creek Press in electronic formats and from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner in trade paperback. Find out more about the Family Heirlooms Series and the Friendship Heirlooms Series by clicking on the links or buttons at the top of the page.
Karen's inspirational romantic fiction novel, HOME, is published in electronic formats by Writers Exchange E-Publishing and in trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner. She’s sold another inspirational romantic fiction novel, DESTINY, that will be published in electronic formats by Writers Exchange E-Publishing and in trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner in March 2013. Her inspirational gothic romance, THE BLOODMOON CURSE (a 2006 Ecataromance Reviewer's Choice Award nominee, a 2006 Dream Ream Award finalist, a Fallen Angel Reviews Recommended Read, as well as the recipient of multiple 5 star reviews), will be reissued in January 2014 as the second book in her new Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series. Book 1, BOUND SPIRITS (dark paranormal inspirational romance) will be released August 2013 with CROOKED HOUSE, Book 3 (inspirational gothic romance) coming March 2015 and RETURN TO BLOODMOON MANOR, Book 4 (inspirational gothic romance) coming January 2016 in electronic formats by Writers Exchange E-Publishing and in trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner.
Karen’s Gypsy Road Series, Angelfire Trilogy (all contemporary romances), Falcon's Bend Series (mystery/police procedural), and RESTLESS AS RAIN (contemporary romance) along with her award-winning paranormal romance SWEET DREAMS have been revised and reissued in trade paperback format from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner with new covers designed by Karen. New electronic editions of each title are also available from Writers Exchange E-Publishing. These titles have been nominated for multiple RT Book Reviews’ Reviewer's Choice Awards, the Daphne du Maurier Award, Night Owl Reviews Top Pick, The Romance Studio’s Sweetheart Award, and several EPIC Awards. Karen has sold a second trilogy set continuing her Angelfire Trilogy. Angelfire Trilogy II will include ONLY THE LONELY (February 2014 release), MIDNIGHT ANGEL (May 2014 release), and SHADOWS OF THE NIGHT (August 2014 release). The trilogy will be published in electronic formats by Writers Exchange E-Publishing and in trade paperback from http://stores.lulu.com/karenwiesner. Click here to find out more about this trilogy. Karen has also written police procedural mysteries, the Falcon's Bend Series, with award-winning author Chris Spindler of Auenwald, Germany. The following will be reissued one a month from June-November 2012 in electronic formats by from Writers Exchange E-Publishing and in trade paperback from http://stores.lulu.com/karenwiesner: DEGREES OF SEPARATION, TEARS ON STONE, THE FIFTEENTH LETTER, ROMANTIC NOTIONS, and FALCON'S BEND CASE FILES, Volumes I and II. The Falcon’s Bend Series has won and/or finaled for The Romance Studio’s Sweetheart Award, the L-Edit Slip contest, RT Book Reviews Top Pick review award and EPIC’s EPPIE Award. The series has also received 5 star reviews from The Romance Studio, Huntress Reviews, Dark Angel Reviews, and Coffee Time Romance, as well as 4 1/2 stars from RT Book Reviews. Karen designed all the covers and the series logo. Click the Falcon's Bend Series button above for more information.
Uncial Press has electronically published Karen’s Wounded Warriors Series, reissuing revised versions of RELUCTANT HEARTS (Book 1), WAITING FOR AN ECLIPSE (Book 2), MIRROR MIRROR (Book 3), and WAYWARD ANGELS (Book 4). UNTIL IT'S GONE (Book 5) and WHITE RAINBOW, the sixth and final book in the series, are also now available from Uncial. Trade paperback versions are also available for each book in the series from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner. Karen designed the new covers for the series. Click on the Wounded Warriors Series button above for more information.
Karen's first writing reference title with Writer's Digest Books, FIRST DRAFT IN 30 DAYS, is a bestseller available wherever writing reference titles are sold. Writer's Digest Book Club released it as a Main Selection in March 2005. You can find more information and the bonus website advertised in the book by clicking on the Writing Reference button. Karen's second release from Writer's Digest Books was FROM FIRST DRAFT TO FINISHED NOVEL {A Writer's Guide to Cohesive Story Building}, available now. Also available is the FROM FIRST DRAFT TO FINISHED NOVEL bundle, which contains both of Karen's Writer's Digest Books with the Writer's Digest Weekly Planner. Karen recently sold her third offering to Writer’s Digest Books. WRITING THE SERIES will be released as a trade paperback in May 2013. Click on the Writing Reference button above for more information about these books.
Karen is also the author of ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING The Definitive Guide {The Most
Complete Reference to Non-Subsidy E-Publishing
and WEAVE YOUR WEB {The Promotional Companion to ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING The Definitive Guide. The Guide was a finalist for the 2000 EPPIE Award and won the 2001 EPPIE for Best Non-fiction. It was excerpted in the 2001 Writers Digest Novel & Short Story Market and made the 2001 Inscriptions' Books of the Year list. eBooks N' Bytes chose the Guide to be their first winner of the eBooks N' Bytes Award of Excellence for Epublishing Book of the Year (2002). The Guide was also a finalist in the 2002 Indie Awards. WEAVE YOUR WEB was a 2004 EPPIE finalist. Please note that Karen has discontinued her e-publishing and author promotion books and both are currently unavailable.
THE POWER OF PROMOTIONAL GROUPS details how published authors can set up a promotional group (like Karen's own, Jewels of the Quill). The reference book is available now in electronic formats from Twilight Times Books. THE POWER OF PROMOTIONAL GROUPS was a 2009 EPPIE Award finalist. Click on the Nonfiction button above for more information.
Karen's first book of poetry was released in October 2001. SOUL BLEEDS The Dark
Poetry and Other Wanderings of K.S. Wiesner finaled in the 2002 EPPIE Awards. Click on the
Poetry button above for more information.
Karen also writes children's books under the pen name Karen Sue Wiesner, including:
Click on the Children's
Books button above for more information.
Karen is the founding member of Jewels of the Quill www.JewelsoftheQuill.com, a promotional
group of women authors who write in a variety of genres. The group has monthly spotlights
and giveaways at their website, a newsletter with over 1000 subscribers, and was featured in the September 2003 issue of RT Book Reviews. Jewels of the Quill produced two award-winning group anthologies per year published by Whiskey Creek Press from 2005-2011, including:
Karen edited TALES FROM THE TREASURE TROVE, Volume I, and co-edited each subsequent group anthology. She also designed all the Jewels of the Quill book covers. Karen has contributed a novella to each anthology the group has done from the very first. Click on the Romantic Fiction or Jewels of the Quill buttons for more information.
In addition, Karen's Jewels of the Quill anthology stories have been and will be packaged in the following dame collections published by Whiskey Creek Press:
Click on the Romantic Fiction, Jewels of the Quill, or series buttons for more information.
Karen has won the Inscriptions Engraver Award for best on-line columnist two years
in a row, the Year 2000 for eXcellence in E-publishing Award: E-author from ebookadvisor, was a two
time recipient of the E-Pub Ambassador Award, and was a two time recipient of The Simply Charming
Award for outstanding promotion of e-books. She was also nominated for the 2000 EPIC Florence Moyer
Service Award.
Karen is a member of
Infinite Worlds of Fantasy Authors and World Romance
Writers.
In addition to writing, Karen enjoys designing websites and graphics for her pages.
Currently, she designs and maintains her own site, children's author Linda Derkez's website, and the
Jewels of the Quill website. Karen
also enjoys designing cover art and logos for books. You can view
her designs by clicking on the Cover Design button above.
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Black River Falls, WI 54615. If you
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DEGREES OF SEPARATION, Book 1 of the Falcon’s Bend Series
Newly Revised and Reissued
Mystery/Police Procedural
Coming June 2012 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
One Night of Eternity (Woodcutter's Grim Series, Book 6) by Karen Wiesner
Paranormal Romance Novella
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming July 2012 in electronic formats
TEARS ON STONE, Book 2 of the Falcon’s Bend Series
Newly Revised and Reissued
Mystery/Police Procedural
Coming July 2012 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
FALCON’S BEND CASE FILES, Volume I (The Early Cases)
Newly Revised and Reissued
Mystery/Police Procedural Novella Collection
Coming August 2012 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
WOODCUTTER’S GRIM SERIES—CLASSIC TALES OF HORROR RETOLD, Volume II
including Moonlight Becomes You (Book 4) plus 3 bonus stories in the series: Bewitched (Book 5), One Night of Eternity (Book 6), and Beauty is the Beast (Book 7)
Karen Wiesner
Paranormal Romance Novella Collection
Coming September 2012 in electronic formats from Whiskey Creek Press;
in trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
THE FIFTEENTH LETTER, Book 3 of the Falcon’s Bend Series
Newly Revised and Reissued
Mystery/Police Procedural
Coming September 2012 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
ROMANTIC NOTIONS, Book 4 of the Falcon’s Bend Series
Newly Revised and Reissued
Mystery/Police Procedural
Coming October 2012 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
For Always, Book 3 of the Cowboy Fever Series by Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance Novella
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming November 2012 in electronic formats
FALCON’S BEND CASE FILES, Volume II
Newly Revised and Reissued
Mystery/Police Procedural Novella Collection
Coming November 2012 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
CLUMSY GIRL’S GUIDE TO FALLING IN LOVE, Book 1 of the Friendship Heirlooms Series by Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romantic Comedy/Chick-lit
Coming December 2012 in electronic formats from Whiskey Creek Press;
in trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
Taking Responsibility Builds Trust, Book 1 of the Making Good Choices Series reissue by Karen Sue Wiesner
Children's Interactive Nonfiction (ebook)/Children’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Nonfiction
Guardian Angel Publishing
Coming soon in paperback and electronic formats
Taking Care of Your Things, Book 2 of the Making Good Choices Series reissue by Karen Sue Wiesner
Children's Interactive Nonfiction (ebook)/Children’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Nonfiction
Guardian Angel Publishing
Coming soon in paperback and electronic formats
Taming April, Book 4 of the Cowboy Fever Series by Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance Novella
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming January 2013 in electronic formats
DESTINY
Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romantic Fiction
Coming March 2013 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
WRITING THE SERIES
Karen S. Wiesner
Nonfiction/Writing Reference
Coming May 2013 in trade paperback from Writers Digest Books
COWBOY FEVER SERIES
including Wings of Love(Book 1) plus 4 bonus stories in the series: Losses and Gains (Book 2), For Always (Book 3), Taming April (Book 4), and The Only One (Book 5)
Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance Novella Collection
Coming May 2013 in electronic formats from Whiskey Creek Press;
in trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
MICHAEL’S ANGEL, Book 2 of the Friendship Heirlooms Series by Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romantic Suspense
Coming July 2013 in electronic formats from Whiskey Creek Press;
in trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
BOUND SPIRITS, Book 1 of the Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series
Karen Wiesner
Dark Paranormal Inspirational Romance
Coming August 2013 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
Beauty is the Beast (Woodcutter's Grim Series, Book 6) by Karen Wiesner
Paranormal Romance Novella
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming September 2013 in electronic formats
THE DEEP, A Woodcutter’s Grim Series Novel by Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Romantic Paranormal Horror
Coming October 2013 in electronic formats from Whiskey Creek Press;
in trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
The Only One, Book 5 of the Cowboy Fever Series by Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance Novella
Whiskey Creek
Press
Coming November 2013 in electronic formats
DRIFTER’S HEART, Book 6, A Cowboy Fever Series Novel by Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance
Coming December 2013 in electronic formats from Whiskey Creek Press;
in trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
THE BLOODMOON CURSE, Book 2 of the Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series reissue
Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Gothic Romance
Coming January 2014 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
ONLY THE LONELY, Book 1 of Angelfire Trilogy II
Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance
Coming February 2014 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
MIDNIGHT ANGEL, Book 2 of Angelfire Trilogy II
Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance
Coming May 2014 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
SHADOWS OF THE NIGHT, Book 3 of Angelfire Trilogy II
Karen Wiesner
Contemporary Romance
Coming August 2014 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
CROOKED HOUSE, Book 3 of the Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series
Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Gothic Romance
Coming March 2015 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
RETURN TO BLOODMOON MANOR, Book 4 of the Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series
Karen Wiesner
Inspirational Gothic Romance
Coming January 2016 in electronic formats from Writers Exchange E-Publishing
and trade paperback from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/karenwiesner
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